RT News - March 2 2026 (17:00 MSK)

Breaking news - as Beirut is hit by Israeli strikes. That's after Lebanon's Prime Minister banned military action from the country's territory obligating Hezbollah to surrender its weapons to the state. The militant group attacked Israel in solidarity with Iran. RT's Tehran bureau producer reports exclusively from a site where IDF airstrikes flattened a building, right near our channel's office that was also damaged. Tehran claims to have killed more than 500 American troops with its retaliatory strikes across the region. Although the Pentagon says only four of its service members have been lost so far. And in today's Sanchez Effect exclusively here on RT, Iran's deputy foreign minister explains how the government is coping with the loss of its supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei who was killed on Saturday.